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User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

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I have literally tried every solution found online and NOTHING seems to work. Our environment, Windows server 2008 domain controller, Windows 7 Pro x64 bit PC's. Trying to login as a domain user and get the error " User Profile Service failed
the logon. User profile cannot be loaded". I can only login with the domain Administrator account, or the local administrator account. We are NOT using Roaming profiles. The application event logs do have event error 1500 and event
warning 1509.... see screenshot below.

Verified GPO was not configured to "allow users to logon with temporary profiles"

SFC /scannow

Fresh install of Windows 7 Pro

Live Essentials was never installed (some forums referred to the .sqm file fron event ID 1509 possible relating to an issue with Live Essentials)

Google update was never installed (remember seeing it referred to in a forum as well)

I am now out of ideas.. This has been an ongoing issue for about a month and I am finally admitting defeat. This is my last effort to get help before breaking down and paying the $259 to Microsoft to help resolve it.

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I am having the exact same issue with every Windows 7 machine. I too, have tried all the same steps as Phillip to no avail. This is a serious issue within Microsoft OS.
Clearly by the forums, millions are having the same issue. Surely Microsoft would take notice that they've made it impossible to add users to computers.

I was able to fix this on a per machine basis by going into the Advanced Security Settings for the C:\Users\Default folder (its hidden by default) and checking the box to "Replace all child object permission with inheritable permissions from this object".

I have been searching for 2 days for a fix and this is what actually fixed it for me. Thanks! I have seen this on 2 different Windows 7 64-bit machines. I ran into the issue during initial configuration out of the box from Dell and from
rebuilding from scratch. It would be nice to know if a hot fix or software install is what is messing up the default user folder. But for now I am satisfied with how to fix the error.

This has not worked for me. Every user (including built-in administrator) of the system gets a TEMP folder. I have this issue occurring on a dozen PC's and it seems to have started at the same time. My only recourse has been to reimage the pc.

This worked for me also. However, after creating a new user I have to also:

Create users Users\user_name folder i.e. C:\Users\John

Create users Users\user_name subfolders by copying from other users (including all hidden files).

Find and add the new user to the folder permissions

Change the user's folder permissions as "Full Control"

Perform the "Replace all child object permission with inheritable permissions from this object" on the Users\user_name.

Log on as the user and log off.

Log in as Administrator and I find a new set of user_name folders i.e. C:\Users\John.pc_name

Then, I can delete the C:\Users\John folder and subfolders.

There is one \TEMP folder under C:\Users

I am running Windows 7 Professional at home and caused this problem by trying to move and point writes to User's data folders to HDD data drive versus SSD boot drive. I started out using Properties sif Libraries and Folders to do so. This seemed
to be OK. I was doing fine until I started to use Windows Explorer with Administrators rights to unlock/unhide and move user's profiles files i.e. C:\Users\User1, C:\Users\Guest. I even tried to move C:\Users to F:\Users. I
beleive these actions caused this failure.

Thanks, this resolved our issue. We were using our same image as always to set up a couple of new machines for a student lab and could not login with domain accounts. Used to always work with the same image. Not sure if something changed with the domain
authentication end of things.

I was able to fix this on a per machine basis by going into the Advanced Security Settings for the C:\Users\Default folder (its hidden by default) and checking the box to "Replace all child object permission with inheritable permissions from this
object".

Fixed it for me, thank you very much indeed ConflictSerum!

Had joined an older win7 machine to 2012 R2 Essentials via its connect wizard and after the mandatory reboots I found that I couldn't log onto any domain accounts. The profile creation was obviously failing due to an odd permission lack and the profile
couldn't be copied from the default. thx again.

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